Meh, I've got a bachelor party and wedding in the next few weeks, and flu vaccines always give me a very mild version of the flu for a few days. Nothing really debilitating, but all the same I'm waiting until November.
That's not the flu. That's not a "very mild version of the flu" either really. It is a reaction by your immune system to it, which is not the same thing. Yes this is being pedantic assholery, but claims like this is why ignorance about disease and immunizations are actually backsliding.
Also, if its in a few weeks then go and get the flu shot now and you won't have to worry about it. If for no other reason than you help improve the chances that you won't be spreading the flu to people at the bachelor party and/or wedding.
What do you do? I would be fairly skeptical you're going to work with influenza. "Flu" sure, Flu, I doubt it.
Yeah, a lot of people don't know what serious flu is like. And it lulls them into ignorant complacency. Typical modern privileged idiocy.
Plus their comment "it won't do me any good, I'll go to work if I have the flu or not", um wouldn't you like the increased chance to not get the flue and feel like shit while working? What the fuck kind of argument is that?
You can get the nasal one.
This. The people going "I have a reaction"...then talk to your doctor and tell them so they can make sure you try a different version, there are options. Of course most of the people claiming that are full of shit and just think they have an allergic reaction because their body has a normal, possibly somewhat elevated immune response when they get it.
That's not to disparage that person if they really do, but I see a lot of people parrot shit like that and then find out they never even got the flu shot or if they did they just had a normal reaction, think they got the real flu and then swear off it forever after.